March 14,Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will unveil the new generation AI chip platform Rubin architecture at the GTC conference on Tuesday. This technology giant, one of the top three in the world by market capitalization, continues the tradition of being named after outstanding scientists.The new product is named after Vera Rubin, the astronomer who discovered dark matter., marking its continued use of product naming to pay tribute to diverse groups in the technology community - despite the current US Trump administration's cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
Vera Rubin was born in Philadelphia in 1928, by observing the abnormal rotation speed of the Andromeda Galaxy, took the lead in providing key evidence for the existence of dark matter. This scientist, who holds three advanced degrees and has published more than 100 papers, has devoted his life to promoting women's participation in scientific research. “I hope you will love your work and fight against all forms of injustice as much as I love astronomy,” Rubin’s message at the 1996 graduation ceremony has become a spiritual legacy in the scientific and technological community.
This is the fourth consecutive generation that NVIDIA has adopted a naming structure for female and minority scientists.. Previously, the Hopper architecture paid tribute to programming language pioneer Grace Hopper, AdaLovelace commemorated the first author of computer algorithms, and BlackBlackwell was taken from David Blackwell, the first black academician of the National Academy of Sciences.Naming strategy is being upgraded from ancillary marketing to core technical identity——Blackwell released last year has covered the product line from GB200 chip to DGX server.
Investors focus on Tuesday's announcementRubin chip computing speed, configuration plan and mass production schedule. This architecture includes the "Vera" central processor and the "Rubin" GPU, and comes at a critical moment for Nvidia to consolidate its dominance in AI hardware. Huang is expected to give a brief introduction to the scientist's life in his speech, emphasizing as he did when he introduced Blackwell last year that "this name perfectly fits our vision of the future of computing."